This 1928 photograph shows Delhi’s railway station in the distance, with sidings and a mix of goods and passenger carriages filling the foreground. There isn’t much information about where the image came from; the only note on it simply says “Delhi station, 1928.”
Around this time, construction had begun on a new station for the imperial capital, located between Ajmeri Gate and Paharganj. As a result, the older station in the photograph began to be referred to as “Old Delhi railway station” in official records. And despite the advent of motor cars, the colonial government still leaned heavily on the railways as symbols of progress and modernity (despite their limitations and lack of reach in India).
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